How does cpanel-based web site hosting operate?

For your information, it's good to know that most of the cPanel web page hosting offers on the current website hosting market are furnished by a very insubstantial marketing segment (as far as annual cash flow is concerned) dubbed hosting reseller. Reseller website hosting is a sort of a small-size marketing niche, which provides a huge amount of different web hosting brands, yet furnishing precisely the same solutions: mainly cPanel web hosting services. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the website hosting offers on the entire web site hosting market supply strictly the same thing: cPanel. There's no difference at all. Even the cPanel-based web space hosting price tags are alike. Quite similar. Leaving for those in need of a top web hosting service virtually no other web hosting platform/web space hosting CP option. So, there is simply a single fact: out of more than 200k web page hosting trademarks worldwide, the non-cPanel based ones are less than two percent! Less than 2 percent, note that one...

200,000 "web site hosting companies", all cPanel-based, yet diversely branded

The web hosting "diversity" and the site hosting "offers" Google reveals to us boil down to merely one and the same solution: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different hosting trademarked names. Suppose you are simply a normal fellow who's not very well acquainted with (as most of us) with the web site development processes and the web space hosting platforms, which actually power the separate domain names and web pages . Are you prepared to make your web hosting decision? Is there any website hosting alternative you can settle on? Of course there is, as of now there are more than two hundred thousand web space hosting providers out there. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98% of these 200,000+ different web hosting brand names around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel webspace hosting Control Panel and platform, named differently, with literally the same price tags! WOW! That's how large the diversity on the present website hosting market is... Period.

The web page hosting LOTTO we are all part of

Simple arithmetic reveals that to stumble upon a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is a big strike of luck. There is a less than one in 50 chance that an event like that will take place! Less than one in fifty...

The positive and negative points of the cPanel-based web space hosting solution

Let's not be fierce with cPanel. After all, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was trendy and perhaps covered most web hosting market preconditions. To put it briefly, cPanel can do the trick if you have just one single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...

Negative Sign Number One: A dumb domain name folder configuration

If you have 2 or more domains, however, be extremely cautious not to erase completely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will refer to each next hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web hosting server, because they all are set up into the root folder of the default domain name, which is the quite popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain name is a folder located inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time try not to remove the files of the add-on domains, please. Determine for yourself how fantastic cPanel's domain name folder structure is:

public_html (here my-default-domain.com is located)
public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)

Are you getting confused? We undoubtedly are!

Predicament Number 2: The same electronic mail folder configuration

The electronic mail folder configuration on the web hosting server is precisely the same as that of the domains... Repeating the same error twice?!? The sysadmin chaps firmly enhance their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the email server, hoping not to mess things up too fatally.

Weak Side Number 3: An absolute deficiency of domain name management sections

Do we need to refer to the entire deficiency of a contemporary domain name management GUI - a location where you can: register/relocate/renew/park or administer domain names, change domain names' Whois information, protect the Whois details, change/create nameservers (DNS) and Domain Name System records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "modern" tool at all. That's a vast shortcoming. An inexcusable one, we want to add...

Negative Side Number 4: Numerous login locations (min 2, maximum three)

How about the necessity for another login to utilize the invoice transaction, domain name and technical support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel user account login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web hosting company. Now and then, depending on the invoice transaction tool (principally meant for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting corporation is making use of, the devoted users can wind up with 2 extra login locations (1: the invoicing transaction/domain management GUI; 2: the ticket support software platform), ending up with a total of 3 login locations (including cPanel).

Problem Number Five: More than one hundred and twenty website hosting Control Panel menus to learn... rapidly

cPanel offers for your consideration more than 120 menus inside the webspace hosting Control Panel. It's an excellent idea to get to know each and every one of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's way too impudent on cPanel's side.

With all due respect, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel-based website hosting service providers:

As far as we are aware of, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...